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Sergio Ospina-Romero

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Anthropologist, musician, MA in History, and currently PhD candidate in Musicology at Cornell University. His publications and research activities are mainly focused on Popular Music in Latin America in the early twentieth century, in relation to sound recording industries, mechanical reproduction, nationalism, transnationalism, cultural identities, and music consumption. His first book, Dolor que canta. La vida y la música de Luis A. Calvo en la sociedad colombiana de comienzos del siglo XX, was just published by the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH). His doctoral dissertation focuses on a series of Recording Expeditions led by the Victor Talking Machine Company through Latin America, between 1905 and 1928. He is member of the Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) and of the Latin American branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-AL). Between 2010 and 2014 he was Lecturer in Historical Anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Bogotá. Sergio is the pianist and director of Palonegro, an incredible ensemble of Latin American music in Ithaca, NY.